London: The Bookman's Journal, 1924. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Number 538 of a limited edition of 700 copies. A fine copy.

Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1980. Hardback in original price-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. A fine copy.

London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1967. xvi, 409 pages. original red cloth gilt. Octavo. A fine copy.

Nister & Co. No date [circa 1900]. [12] pages. Illustrated with four colour plates, and line drawings. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. 9.3 x 8 cm's. Just a touch rubbed at extremities; light browning of text block; else a very good copy of this attractive little book.

Circa 1920's. A bisque two-piece tobacco jar in the form of a rather worse for wear Bonzo, presumably after a night on the tiles. Approximately 6 inches tall. This image was reproduced on a postcard. Fine condition.

London: Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library…, 1809. [4], 136, [1 List of the plates], [1 blank], [2 ad’s]. pages. Illustrated with 24 hand-coloured engraved plates. Bound in half green sheep gilt over green cloth. All edges gilt. 148 x 100 mm. A very good, clean, fresh copy.

London. New York.John Lane The Bodley Head. John Lane Company. 1915. [iv], xiv, [2], 3-413pp. 36 full-page coloured plates and numerous black & white illustrations. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Quarto. First edition. Extremities a little rubbed; touch of wear to head and heel of spine; two tiny wear holes along front edge of spine; light spotting on title and at start; else a very good copy.

London. Methuen and Company, 1895. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. [i-vi], vii-xvi, [1-2], 3-173, [174] pages, plus 32 ad's. Ten black & white illustrations. Original pictorial green and red cloth. Top edge gilt. Octavo. First edition. Small bookplate and bookseller label to paste-down front endpaper. Some foxing to endpapers and half-title; Tissue guard to title foxed; else a very good copy.

Chicago: M. A. Donahue & Co, No date [circa 1920]. [10] pages. 4 coloured illustrations, and others printed in brown. Original die-cut covers shaped around the cat’s head. 36.5 x 18.8 cm. Ownership inscription on rear cover; lower outer corners worn, and some leaves with small loss; else very good.

London.Routledge, Warne and Routledge. [1862]. [222]pp each verse printed on the recto of each leaf. Illustrated with line drawings. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong octavo. Fifth edition. Binding rather rubbed and worn; head and heel of spine and board corners bumped and worn; upper board damp-stained and a little bubbled; endpapers browned; small wear hole to inner edge of front free endpaper; margins age-toned; light spotting to the last few pages; else a good plus, internally clean copy of an early edition.

London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1862.]. [ii], 113 leaves printed on one side only. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, sometime re-backed in imitation of the original. A few leaves have some slight damage to the fore-edges where once loose; one leaf repaired; one leaf with juvenile scribble on blank verso; binding very worn to corners and edges, and both boards with old fold marks, now repaired. However, this third printing, the first with woodcut illustrations based on the earlier [1846] lithographs, and the first enlarged edition with 43 new rhymes and illustrations, is extremely rare; in our experience, much more so than the second edition of 1855. -

London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, No date [1862 and inscribed 1862 on front pastedown]. [2ff], 112ff, all printed on one side only. Pictorial title and 112 wood-engraved illustration with limericks beneath. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper -covered boards. Oblong: 145 x 220 mm. Pages mis-numbered from page 89 to 99, as is often the case; boards rubbed and worn at edges and corners. But a good, clean copy with no damage to the leaves. Inscribed on front paste-down: ‘To Miss Fanny Scott. A prize for walking. Midsummer 1862.’

London.Methuen& Co. [1897]. [8], 991pp. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth with pictorial paste-down to front board. All edges red. Octavo. First edition. Head and heel of spine and board corners a little bumped with a tiny nick to heel of spine; pictorial paste-down is a little spotted and has some loss to at edges; front hinge is just cracking; half title has inoffensive staining at spine; some light finger-marking to lower margins of one or two pages; else a very good copy.

Oldham: The Incline Press, 1993. 35 pages. This edition uses 32 Nursery Rhymes and engravings from The Zodiac Book of Nursery Rhymes published by Chatto and Windus in 1939. The drawings on the title page, after the contents, and on page 3 were made later, in 1945. Number 99 of an edition of 260 copies. Original blue cloth-backed boards over patterned paper-covered boards designed by Enid Marx. A fine copy.

London and Glasgow. Blackie & Son Limited. Hardcover with original pictorial dust-wrapper. 48 pages. Frontispiece in full colour by G. W. Goss, and numerous illustrations throughout printed in black and a range of single colours. Grey cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. First edition. 4to. Light spotting to endpapers; two sizeable and two minor tears in dust-wrapper, some of which have been sellotaped; else a very good copy.

London.Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1932. [i-vi],vii-xiv,[1]208pp, plus 8pp adverts to rear. Colour frontispiece and pictorial dust wrapper by Jessie King. Blue boards gilt. Octavo. First Edition. Slight spotting to endpapers. Small smudge marks to top of pp 58-9. Dust wrapper slightly chipped at corners, with some small paper loss to head and heel of spine, and to rear of wrapper; else, a very good bright copy.

London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [1915]. 16 pages. Illustrated in colour by Stanley Tyreman Berkeley. Oblong: 180 x 220 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive. This title was also issued in the normal rag book format between 1909 – 1919, but in ‘Fluffidown’ form only in 1915. See Cope, page 75. [15120]

London: John Swain & Son, Limited, No date [1924]. [22] pages, plus 12 colour plates; line drawings within the text. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. 17 x 13 cm's. Some light spotting on fore-edges; else a very good copy.